Bluewater bomb plotter facing life after being found guilty of plot to blow up shopping centre

A Canadian man was found guilty yesterday of taking part in a plot to bomb the Bluewater shopping centre and other British targets in 2004.

Pakistan-born Momin Khawaja could face life in prison when he is sentenced next month.

He denied involvement in the plot to attack London's Ministry of Sound nightclub, the Kent shopping centre and electrical and gas facilities.

Khawaja, 29, was accused of collaborating-with a group of British Muslims of Pakistani descent in the plot.

Five co-conspirators were convicted in London last year and jailed for life.

Defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon said Khawaja, an Ottawa software developer, acknowledged he had made a remote control device but insisted he was not let in on the British bombing plans by the other plotters.